How much fps is the ‘normal’ benchmark for movement if you could exceed it by a hundred?
Nearly 300 hundred on my computer, if I remember right about 280. The 100 FPS gain is also present in the stationary microbes test from 180 to about 280, again on my computer and with the large caveat that not all microbe functionality was reimplemented yet so the new benchmark doesn’t perform those operations yet.
hello, does anyone know how to improve performance?
If you have a GPU (not integrated graphics) you are already set in terms of GPU performance. The game is pretty much CPU limited as long as you have some kind of GPU. Reducing the entity limit and increasing the cloud processing interval are the performance options that do something to the CPU usage.
The next Thrive release is going to be basically entirely focused on performance improvements for the game.
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Will there be near-desolate planets with only shallow pools of water for life to originate from? Desolate planets with underground water reserves for life to form in? And what about planets like Venus which could theoretically support life in its clouds (after having evolved in conventional oceans which then evaporated)?
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I imagine we would like for there to be some pretty challenging scenarios once we get the balance right in the future. So I wouldn’t say it would be unlikely.
We are also aiming to have a proper planet editor eventually, so if there is no preset for it, you could potentially very well live on a planet with 0% water if you wanted. (And die quickly).
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… Wouldn’t Dwarf/Small Planets also be only able to support life for a short time due to rapid atmosphere loss (amongst other problems with which they come)?
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i can think of a way a dwarf planet could sustain life for a long time [1]
for example a glass shell formed by a quartz dust covering getting melted and having been made mostly from quartz meteorites and micrometeors crashing into a large ball of ice with an iron or magnesium core, obviously since ice can’t melt instantly and because of the thing where liquids vaporizing fast enough makes them push away whatever is imparting heat that would leave a lot of holes in the glass, though they’d probably get filled by the water freezing as it would freeze from the outside in, if the surface was bombarded by enough glass for long enough and every so often it had an orbit where its surface would get melted a bit eventually you’d get left with a planet that is a rock full of water and if life arose it would probably have photosynthetic autotrophs that can’t withstand heat closer to the core but still in the light having zone and light eaters that can withstand heat as close to the surface as possible, and depending on how beneficial it would be, some things might become vacuum capable for at least short periods of time to escape predation, there would obviously be material being eroded from the glass shell and falling to the core of the planet meaning sand ↩︎
Too improbable, NEXT!
improbability means nothing to a determined human with a planet and solar system editor
Oh right. I forgot your soul trait was red.
I know we don’t have to follow LAWK, but wouldn’t the glass shell collapse under its own weight and shatter?
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nah, the pressure from inside it would take care of that for long enough for the shell to get thick enough for it to not do that, assuming the person with the planet editor actually cares about whether or not a planet has to just spontaneously appear in game and avoids it, but if that isn’t the case, no because it was intentionally designed to not without regard to how its history would work
no, that doesn't work
How are meteors going to build a shell that keeps the atmosphere from being lost to space?
You mean the leidenfrost effect? Do you want a 1 cm high dome so that life can breathe and walk under it?
And this assumes that a quartz meteor hitting ice is like poring molten glass on ice.
If a micrometeor or meteor hits the ground, why should it melt and when it solidifies, connect with the neighboring pieces of glass?
Glass can form after an impact, usually the material comes from the ground, but lets say it can also come from the meteor.
This is how the fragments look like[1]
They are quite small
And not necessarily transparent[2]
So meteors aren’t known to produce flat surfaces covered with a new material. It would be many little disconnected pieces of glass.
Orbits don’t change every so often. The thing you are referring to that causes ice to melt is planetary migration.
Why would they be in the center of the planet?
How hot is the surface?
Except, the whole plan was to keep the atmosphere intact.
I assume there is liquid water around the region called the core.
Mother nature doesn’t build air tight domes and repair them as they break. Once the atmosphere is leaked, you can’t breathe anymore, and all the water either boils or freezes.
you misunderstood what i was conveying
no, it’s assuming getting bombarded with quartz produces heat and adds quartz to the surface, which both do happen, and assuming that a thick enough layer would get melted instead of simply crushed by large metors, and melted by being close enough to several stars without letting as much light get through to the water ice due to being lots of tiny particles
not saying it has to, it could just have several stars in its system and every once in a while they become a configuration that bombards the planet with a lot of heat, though it would have to be black quartz for that to work so…
not in the center, closer to it so they don’t get cooked
hot enough to melt glass every now and then
can’t really do space travel without that now can ya?
it is literally a shell filled with water and a thin layer of air, with a core at the middle, and it would be ice when not near enough to the stars for water to sublimate, and bombarded with quartz through a large part of its orbit
Is it just me, or is this ANOTHER Underwater Civilizations-esque impossibility?
-please dont ban me-
Except the ones that usually argue in favor of such things are arguing against each other.
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I have no idea how to understand that.
“Smelttle the meltttle!”
And then he vanished, never to be heard from again…